LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anniversary Ball
Boston Spa ladies guild held an SOS Ball at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate on 27 February to celebrate the RNLI's anniversary.. - View image in PDF
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A British Wellington Aeroplane
AUGUST 22ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
A British Wellington aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £11 9s..
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
APRIL. 12TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An object resembling a rubber dinghy had been reported, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16 9s. 6d..
None (40)
JULY 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
Airmen were thought to have baled out from an aeroplane, but no one was found. - Rewards, £6 15s..
None (44)
AUGUST 11TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A fire had been reported on the sea, possibly from an aeroplane, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £18 11s. 6d..
A Vessel (5)
JUNE 11TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
An SOS from a vessel east of the Orkneys had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £12 15s..
None (36)
NOVEMBER 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
An airman was reported to have baled out, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 12s..
Two Hurricane Aeroplanes
SEPTEMBER 6TH . - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. Two Hurricane aeroplanes had collided, and an airman had baled out, but he was picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £2 10s..
Nil Desperandum
At 5.34 p.m. on 29th August, 1966, it was reported that a fishing boat, one mile off shore, had burned an orange smoke signal. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 5.50 and proceeded in an east north easterly breeze and a...
The Prince's Appeal to Shipping. The First Response: Gift of Three Motor Life-Boats
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
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